It’s because he’s another race. I’m sorta scared of the other race because we have so much conflict with them.
In the same clip, Shelby Sugg tells us:
Not even in my mind, I don’t. I don’t like the Hussein thing. I’ve had ENOUGH of Hussein.
I find it amusing that in a state where the African American population makes up 3.2 percent, Wanda worries about “so much conflict with them.” I’m guessing that most African Americans who live in WV go WELL out of their way to avoid ANY kind of conflict with the likes of Wanda Gibson. Hell, I’m white and would try to avoid her with all my soul.
And Shelby, the name Hussein bothers you? Are you equally offended by people named Joe or Joseph? Afterall, those Joes share a name with Josef Stalin.
It’s sad. They live in an economically depressed state and they seem to be ruled by fear of people who are not like them. So the 2008 GOP strategy will probably to hit on the main themes of “God, gays, and guns,” but with “scary black people” added to their list of meaningless wedge issues. Oh, and anyone who has ever known a Muslim seems to be suspect in their minds.
Barack, please don’t campaign in WV, after you are nominated.
The stories in the news about inappropriate relationships between teachers and students have been overwhelming. There was even a substitute teacher in New Port Richey who got in trouble after investigators say she had a relationship with an underage student.
Well, another Pasco County substitute teacher’s job is on the line, but this time it’s because of a magic trick.
The charge from the school district — Wizardry!
Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears.
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“I get a call the middle of the day from the supervisor of substitute teachers. He says, ‘Jim, we have a huge issue. You can’t take any more assignments. You need to come in right away,’” he said.
When Piculas went in, he learned his little magic trick cast a spell that went much farther than he’d hoped.
“I said, ‘Well Pat, can you explain this to me?’ ‘You’ve been accused of wizardry,’ [he said]. Wizardry?” he asked.
“You know, there was just an AP article posted that found how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans is weakening again and how the whites in both states (Indiana and North Carolina) who had not completed college were supporting me and in independents, I was running even with him and doing even better with Democratic-leaning independents. I have a much broader base to build a winning coaltion on.”
I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. Both Clinton and Obama are tired, so sometimes they say things they don’t mean.
But this time she violated the rhetorical rules, no doubt by mistake. It was her offhand reference to “working, hard-working Americans, white Americans” that raises the specter of old Dixie demagogues like Wallace and Lester Maddox. Was she dog-whistling to the voters of Kentucky and West Virginia?
While I still cannot believe she actually intended any such nefarious meaning, she seemed to be equating “hard-working Americans” with “white Americans.” Which is precisely what Wallace and his cohort used to do with their drawling refrain about welfare and affirmative action. This is the grating sound of Richard Nixon’s Southern strategy, even though Tricky Dick would never quite stoop to saying such things in public.
Hard-working, white Americans. Geez. Hillary, are you trying use a Nixonian Southern strategy to increase the bigot vote in WV and KY to give you an even larger win in those primaries? Was that some kind a dog whistle being blown at Appalachian lower-income people to indicate that it’s better to vote for a white woman who supports hard-working white Americans rather than the lazy Black people and people who were fortunate enough to make the effort to get through college?
Oh, and Hillary, you won Indiana by one point in an election day that came on the heels of the Rev. Wright scandal. Limbaugh told his minions to vote for you, and it seems that might have had an effect, since 17 percent of GOPers who voted for Clinton in the Hoosier primary said that they would vote for McCain if Clinton is the Democratic nominee.
Hillary, it’s just sad that if you win the nomination, it’s unlikely that African Americans or those horrible well-educated liberals will support you in great numbers.
I’ve heard John Gibson pray and hope for riots in Denver, and though I thought his thoughts were pretty typical of the rabid-right, I didn’t think anyone with a large audience would publicly hope that demonstrators would burn down Denver while protesting Clinton’s nomination.
“Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention would see to it that we don’t elect Democrats,” Limbaugh said during Wednesday’s radio broadcast. He then went on to say that’s the best thing that could happen to the country.
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“There won’t be riots at our convention,” Limbaugh said of the Republican National Convention. “We don’t riot. We don’t burn our cars. We don’t burn down our houses. We don’t kill our children. We don’t do half the things the American left does.”
See? In Limbaugh’s mind, we on the American left (whatever that is) burn our cars and house and kill our children.
U.S. Congressional Candidate Tony Zirkle is is facing criticism from one of his primary opponents, and a host of people on the Internet for speaking at an event over the weekend that celebrated Adolf Hilter’s birthday.
Zirkle confirmed to The News-Dispatch on Monday he spoke Sunday in Chicago at a meeting of the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party, whose symbol is a swastika.
When asked if he was a Nazi or sympathized with Nazis or white supremacists, Zirkle replied he didn’t know enough about the group to either favor it or oppose it.
“Yeah, I’m running for Congress, but I have no idea of whether or not I support the National Socialist Workers Party. They invited me to speak at their celebration of Hitler’s birthday, but I don’t see anything wrong with that. I’m just glad that I was invited to speak at their birthday party.”
“This is just a great opportunity to witness,” he said, referring to his message and his Christian belief.
He also told WIMS radio in Michigan City that he didn’t believe the event he attended included people necessarily of the Nazi mindset, pointing out the name isn’t Nazi, but Nationalist Socialist Workers Party.
“See, they’re not Nazis! They’re just National Socialists! Not the same thing!”
At the event, Hitler’s birthday was observed with a cake with a photo of Hitler and the words “Seig Heil.”
“Seig Heil? I thought it was just an anagram for ‘I, his glee.”
From Think Progress‘ transcript of McCain’s interview with Neil Cavuto:
CAVUTO: I think you know, Senator, we’ve been in and out another all time high for oil and gas prices today. Oil hovering around 113, 114 dollars a barrel. Many are sort of jumping on your proposal to nix the federal gas tax — a little north of 18 cents — throughout the summer. Are you afraid though, by the time we get to the summer, we’ll be up that much and more in gas prices?
MCCAIN: I’m very concerned about it, Neil. And obviously the way it’s been going up is just terrible. But I think psychologically — and a lot of our problems today, as you know, are psychological — the confidence, trust, the uncertainty about our economic future, ability to keep our own home. This might give them a little psychological boost.
Yes, John. The problems are psychological. When someone earning $8.00 an hour has a hard time making it to work or buying enough food for his or her family because of the inflation of food and energy prices, that situation is psychological. An extra three dollars in his pocket per fill-up during McCain’s gas-tax holiday will make low-income people FEEL so much better than they’ll stop worrying about the economy or inflation during the Summer of No Gas Tax and that psychological relief will have an economic multiplier effect and the recession will end.
This week, the potential of the Internet to expose and disgrace when marriages fall apart came into stark relief as Tricia Walsh Smith, who is being divorced by Philip Smith, a theater executive, put a video on YouTube announcing that they never had sex, and yet she found him hoarding Viagra, pornography and condoms.
Not surprisingly, Mr. Smith’s lawyer, David Aronson, called the video “appalling” and said: “Mr. Smith is a very private person. This is obviously embarrassing.”
But in an era when more than one in 10 adult Internet users in the United States have blogs, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, many people are using the Web to tell their side of a marital saga. Despite the legal end of a marriage, the confessions can stretch toward eternity in a steady stream of enraged or despondent postings.
I was going to write a thoughtful paragraph or two about the use of personal blogs to air dirty marital laundry. The paragraphs were going to question how anyone could go so public with matters that are so private and they were going to be a little bit indignant and preachy.
But then I thought, “fuck it.” The real point of this post is pure voyeurism into the lives of the wealthy and spoiled.
Watch the video posted below and feel what you will. I felt a combination of revulsion, loathing, humor, and fascination. Oh, and I also felt indignant!
The part when she calls her husband’s secretary to ask what she should do with his viagra, porn and condoms is especially worth viewing.
